Joseph Grenny || When Truth Speaks to Power

We live in a culture of silence. Many lack the skills to speak up in crucial situations. In his address to the 2020 Global Leadership Summit, New York Times Best-Selling author Joseph Grenny explains how leaders can create a climate where truth is more important than power.

[DeniseScholes]

If I were in the mayo clinic with that leader showing his face I would have quietly and approvingly pulled mine down to match his.

I do not wear it because I believe in it, I wear it because of peer and authoritative pressure.

I think we have the same goal and desire, which is to try to bring health and safety to as many possible. I have dreamed of living in a healthy and safe world since I was a young girl. In my opinion though, pushing our moralistic view on others isn't creating safety, in fact it may be doing far more harm than good.

My conscience and the truth that shines inside of me tells me that clean air, good food, and exercise along with meaningful and joyous connections to family and friends are still going to be the methods to boost our immune systems and prevent the spread, way better than these damming practices of covering our faces, airways, and smiles to friends and strangers alike. Not to mention isolating the most vulnerable and in need of loving care.

I have great concern for the disabled, those with asthma, and others who are doing as they are told and compromising their wellbeing because of power over truth. Everyone needs agency to dicern their own needs and act on their own conscience.

I find it ironic to see this video as I have been watching your video, '4 ways you are being manipulated' all last week and pondering deeply about how much manipulation is happening right now. People being dehumanized as "bad actors" or rebels for disagreeing, responsibility being displaced because everyone is just "doing as they are told" rather than studying and choosing for themselves. People are morally justified in bullying others into compliance, and the consequences (including bacterial pneumonia and the mounting deaths from the vaccine according to the cdc) are "minimized consequences" because the "ends justify the means". The power and force behind this mindset leaves agency far out the back and freedom of choice and consequence out the window.

And here you are promoting manipulation and power? Am I understanding incorrectly perhaps? I do hope so as I cherish agency, the love of all mankind, and have enjoyed your past work. It is indeed excruciating to suggest that line C is the correct answer when everyone else seems to think otherwise. Especially to someone I respect.

I agree that speaking up in situations where someone is doing harm to others is important. It is obvious to anyone that suffocating someone by putting a knee on someone's neck is wrong, and speaking up is the right thing to do. Why didnt they? Consensus?

Is it possible that promoting self suffocation through bullying and peer pressure under the premise of "safety" is also wrong? ...even though it's conconsensus.

Good work to the leader who walked through the mayo clinic without a mask hopefully many around him follow his good example and realize they all have a choice in the matter too. If they want to wear it that is fine, it aught to be no more than a "recommendation". If they don't want to then wouldn't it be great for us to live and let live.

[alexandermurciacalderon]

How can this video have just a couple of likes??